Notes on the 1978 summer study program on dynamo models of geomagnetism in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3009DOI
10.1575/1912/3009Keyword
Geophysics; Fluid dynamicsAbstract
This was the twentieth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program at
Woods Hole. Stephen Childress of the Courant Institute was our principal
lecturer. Dynamo theory, with all its interdisciplinary facets was our
central theme. Geomagnetism and the solar magnetic cycle were brought
closer to comprehension, yet none claimed a detailed predictive theory
was near at hand. Perhaps J. Keller's lecture, entitled "Smooth equations
for rough problems", best characterized the nature of these studies. Even
then, the smooth equations are quite nonlinear, with Finite-amplitude
magnetic solutions yet to be explored. Lectures intertwined with those
of Childress exposed us to topics beside and outside his emphasis on a
convective geodynamo.
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Technical Report: Malkus, Willem V. R., Thayer, Mary C., "Notes on the 1978 summer study program on dynamo models of geomagnetism in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution", 1978-11, DOI:10.1575/1912/3009, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3009Related items
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